I will do a turkey, but chefs’ gobble-to-go is appealing

Gone are the days up North when my entire family spent Thanksgiving Day together, mom cooking a giant feast in the kitchen and, with any luck, a light snowfall outside and a deer, visible through our den’s bay windows, crossing our back lawn from one wooded area to another.

For years, we’ve been georgraphically split—half of us still up North and the rest of us in Florida—and we continue to expand as a melting pot of families thanks to marriages that have enjoined more good people.

So this year, as in other recent years, there’s a sprinking of extended family here, there and in between. For the first time, it looks like for the small gathering that includes me, I may be doing the turkey. Two thoughts: First, what fun!; second, I don’t know if I feel like it, which is immaterial unless…

Turkey-to-go prepared by chefs who’ve perfected turkey after having prepared umpteen gaggles over the years.

OK, I will cook a turkey next week and enjoy every minute of it, but two Palm Beach resorts and a couple of gourmet grocers are among go-to options for Thanksgiving meals-to-go—from a lavish feast for a dozen people to individually tailored holiday meals.

You pre-order—and deadlines for that are around the corner—and then pick up on Nov. 21 or Thanksgiving Day.

The Four Seasons is offering a feast—both turkey and fish are included—that serves 8.

About the Author

M.M. Cloutier is a longtime freelance journalist who has written and reported about dining and food, business, history, travel, people and more for numerous local, regional and national publications, such as Palm Beach-area newspapers and magazines, as well as The New York Times, Time magazine and others.